Last updated: 22 January 2026
Day 1 January 23 (Friday) | Day 2 January 24 (Saturday) | Day 3 January 25 (Sunday)
DAY 1 JANUARY 23 (FRIDAY)
| Time | Program | Venue |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | Welcome Remarks & Group Photo | LT3, UG/F, Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK LT3) |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Opening Keynote Seeing, Reading, and Hearing Images: Expanding Distant Viewing Through Multimodal AI Professor Lauren Tilton, E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities, University of Richmond (USA) |
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| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | Foyer, UG/F, LSK |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Workshop 1 Text and Data Mining for Chinese Historical Texts Dr Donald Sturgeon, Durham University |
User Education Room, G/F, University Library (UER) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 |
Poster Presentations
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Outside Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library (DSLab) |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Parallel Sessions | |
| Organised Panel 1: Enabling a Paradigm Shift: Intersections of Creativity, Epistemology, and Licensing Authority Dr Elaine Chan, Hong Kong Chu Hai College Dr Lung Ghi Roger Lin, Hong Kong Chu Hai College Dr Tin Yung Alex Au, Hong Kong Design Institute |
DSLab, G/F, UL | |
| Organised Panel 2: Reappraising Transformations in Modern China through the Lens of AI Dr Cécile ARMAND, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Professor Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University Dr Thorben Pelzer, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
UER, G/F, UL | |
| Organised Panel 3: Extended Distant Reading: Translation, Multimodality, and Augmented Reading Professor Jenny CY Kwok, Hong Kong Baptist University Dr Luis Damián Moreno García, Hong Kong Baptist University Professor Yao Song, Hong Kong Baptist University |
VR Zone, LG/F, UL | |
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Short Papers 1: LLMs as Critical Instruments in DH
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LSK LT3 | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Poster Presentation & Tea Break | Outside DSLab, G/F, UL |
| 16:30 – 18:30 | Parallel Sessions | |
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Short Papers 2: Graph Reasoning, Provenance & Retrieval in Humanities Data
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DSLab, G/F, UL | |
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Short Papers 3: Seeing at Scale: Vision Methods in DH
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UER, G/F, UL | |
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Short Papers 4: Image Synthesis, Immersion & Multimodality
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VR Zone, LG/F, UL | |
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Short Papers 5: Computational Literary Studies across Languages
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LSK LT3 | |
| 19:00 | Official Dinner (by Invitation only) CUHK Chung Chi College Staff Club Restaurant |
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DAY 2 JANUARY 24 (SATURDAY)
| Time | Program | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:45 | Keynote Talk Stacked Databases – Decolonizing Methodology from Colonial-Era Encyclopaedias to Contemporary AI Chia Wei Hsu, Artist, filmmaker, and curator |
LT3, UG/F, Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK LT3) |
| 10:45 – 12:00 |
Short Papers 6: Networks, Press, and Institutions in Asian Contexts
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| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | Foyer, UG/F, LSK |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Workshop 2 How to Do Research and Create Research Tools with AI: Documentation as Software Dr Bo An, Lingnan University |
User Education Room, G/F, University Library (UER) |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Parallel Sessions | |
| Roundtable 1: Conceptual Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Jianru Wu, Hong Kong Baptist University Junyuan Feng, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University Yang Wang, Independent |
DSLab, G/F, UL | |
| Roundtable 2: From Archives to Visualizations: Embracing Digital Transformation in GLAM Institutions Dr Shirley Zhang, HKUST Library Victoria Caplan, HKUST Library Vincent Wai-Yip Lum, CUHK Library |
UER, G/F, UL | |
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Short Papers 7: Conceptual Frames & Methods in the Age of AI
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VR Zone, LG/F, UL | |
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Short Papers 8: Agentic Systems, Participatory Design & Applications
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LSK LT3 | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Tea Break | Foyer, UG/F, LSK |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
Closing Keynote Closing Remarks |
LSK LT3 |
DAY 3 JANUARY 25 (SUNDAY)
Excursion: Hong Kong Heritage Museum
09:45 Assembly at G/F, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK (Between Hyatt Regency Shatin and University Station Exit B)
10:30 Visit to Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 1 Man Lam Road, Sha Tin
13:00 End of Excursion